Well, we completed the bathroom and laundry in March and I’m now actually getting around to writing about them! The laundry first because it has been one of my favourite projects we’ve done to date. Space saving, FTW!
When we moved into this house, the washing machine was in the bathroom where the second toilet has been added now. This was a bit of a pain and took up a lot of space we didn’t want to sacrifice in the bathroom. We also had two smallish cupboards in the hallway that didn’t really hold much in either.
Suddenly, a plan came together!
We decided to knock out the two cupboards and create one large one that a tub (which we hadn’t had previously) and the washing machine could fit into. We did some careful measuring and it seemed like we might not be quite able to fit the washing machine in and be able to close the cupboard doors in front of it - unless we put it in sideways.
After musing on it for awhile, we decided that if this was the only way to do it we would have to put up with it. It was going to be better than having to keep it in the bathroom and we wanted a tub so that when we were washing things like paint brushes we wouldn’t have to do it in the kitchen sink.
We went to Carter’s and purchased a supertub. Woo hoo! Another nerdily pleasing purchase for the house! Amazingly, we were able to fit it in the back of our hatchback. Hatchback cars are fantastic - I will never own any other sort of car.
The builders came around early in the week and started the process. When they rang me early on the second day I was dreading bad news - were we not even able to fit the washing machine in sideways? Had we bought the wrong sort of tub for some reason? Was there some OTHER disaster? As there are often weird setbacks in this house due to the rather laissez-faire attitude the previous owners had to DIY I was ready for pretty much anything. However, the news was positive - the washing machine was able to be installed with the back against the wall and we’d be able to close the cupboard doors. HOORAY!
After 2 days, the build was complete and everything was plumbed in. I painted the inside grey to match the new colours and we went to Mitre 10 and bought shelving, hooks and other storage-related items. Darren put these up and we were in business!
The only things we have left to do is get new doors (we want doors which will fit in more with the style of the doors in the rest of the house) and then we will be super happy with our little laundry. We still have the same amount of storage space that we had in the old cupboards. A final finished photo still to come…